Colin's Plumbing

Jeff J.

If I could rate them zero stars, I would. This place takes advantage of people in need, especially the elderly. Our normal repair person could not go on the roof to clean bathroom vent because of insurance. So we found a plumber that could come out short notice. Huge mistake. What should have been a 2 hour, $400 job, cost my 90 year old mother-in-law $1,300.
Then he comes out a couple days later to try and sell my mother-in-law some other minor work Collin said was needed, and he wanted to charge $1,500 for this. He was refused and sent away. Beware!!

Mark H.

this man quoted us 700. to 800 and by the time he was done inflating things it ended up costing us 945.00 and the pressure tank he put in sells for 245. but he charged 400+ and when we called and told him we wanted an itemized bill he got annoyed with it, to me it should have been itemized to begin with he is a joke for a plumber! do not use this company!

P K.

Hey Colin... Remember that 150 dollar pressure tank you charged my mom 900 dollars for? Yeah... It's leaking. Your 4400 dollar bill for this 'professional labor' is a joke. You've ripped off far too many of your neighbors. Shame on you!

Tim K.

Sure wish I would have read the reviews prior to highering! :(
NO written estimate(s) or details provided for work to be done. Initial cost doubled, then doubled again. Wanted $5000.00 for 4 hours of backhoe work. That equals $1250.00 per hour! MN-WI average is $60.00 - $130.00, and the National average is $50.00 - $125.00 per hour. Talk about a rip off! I was able to get him down to $625.00 an hour just to get rid of him. ANYONE, and I mean ANYONE using this service, be prepared to be ripped off.

Britnie B.

Do not use this guy! He put in a new well pump and pressure tank in June of 2016 and charged all most $4000 dollars. Then this month the pump went out again. That is 18 months old he still charged for a new pump when it should have been covered under a warranty. (The good thing was that it was covered under our home owners insurance). When he came back a few weeks ago he was here for maybe 30 minutes on a Saturday and before he left he told me that he is tired and has other calls to do and told me depending on how he felt on Sunday he would come back or come back on Monday. After receiving the bill for this one he again charged me almost $4000. He wanted me to take money out of my 401k or ask my parents for the money. I understand getting paid but you can't ask someone to take out of their 401k or use a credit card that I don't have. I wish I would have read the reviews before I decided to go with him the first time. Will not call him again!

Lisa S.

These people put in a ""new"" sandpoint well for me. Charged me over $6000!! It was 3 years ago and I had nothing but problems. First off, I was sucking air and the pressure was all messed up. I had them come back and all the did was tweak the water pressure a bit. Was still sucking air. They don't warranty their work for more than 30 days! It was a friend of mine that found that Colin's had put in a cracked main water valve! Had to fix at my expense. I had ""new"" pipes also break just to find out they never used the correct pipes to begin with! Had to fix at my expense-again. We won't even talk about what they did to my yard with their well truck! I am a disabled person and still can't afford to fix my yard. DO NOT call these people for anything! By the way, I could have had a new sandpoint well put in for around $1500!! I didn't want to even give them 1 star but Yelp made me before I could post this!

Christine B.

This guy doesn't know the meaning of gravity or how pipes flow. For a plumber this is very concerning! Overcharging for backyard plumming service. But my son knew more about plumbing,and he's a welder! Do not be intimated, and be your own advocate for any crooked services from this company.

Robyn B.

That idiot (Colin) was at my house yesterday...we had a frozen water pipe..he was here for 3 hours ...ripped my ceiling out in the basement.......insulation all over the floor and a mess in the kitchen where the pipe was frozen...he never finished....he said my husband can finish putting insulation around the pipe because he had 2 other places he needed to get too...While he was writing out the bill he said three times that this was a very hard job and I'm sure he was saying that to justify the monstrous 687.00 bill. I just stopped payment on the check because after reading several comments on him, I will be damned if I am going to let him rip me off. I will pay for what he deserves and it certainly isn't 687.00.

Rose M.

I don't want to give this company a single star. He accepted my call for a frozen drain pipe. I knew where is was frozen (happened 2 years ago) and how to access it. He disagreed and attempted to use his dirty rusty snake and only got a few feet before he quit. He had to use our screw driver to remove the overflow cover and didn't even put it back on, but left a trail of mud throughout the house and set his machine on 2 rugs leaving wet, rusty marks, then came and said he didn't own the proper equipment. It required a 'Jetter'....but he DEMANDED $250 for maybe 10 minutes of actual work. Had I seen the rugs he wouldn't have been paid a cent. I gave him $50 to leave so I didn't have to call law enforcement to get him out of my house! I have since then located about 20 others he way over charged. Not a plumber in the world worth his $450 an hour!!

L J.

Wish we would have checked reviews before calling this guy. He overcharges and even charges $150 to ""stop by on his way home"" to give you an estimate.